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# ASAIL 2025
Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts 2025

## Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts
co-located with the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025)

## Chicago, USA, June 16, 2025.

Edited by

### Francesca Lagioia 1
Jack Mumford 2
Hannes Westermann 3

1 European University Institute and University of Bologna, Italy
2 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
3 Maastricht University, The Netherlands

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 9 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume, 5 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

### Session 1: Evaluating & Specializing LLMs

- Measuring Faithfulness and Abstention: An Automated Pipeline for Evaluating LLM-Generated 3-ply Case-Based Legal Arguments (Long paper) 1-18
  Li Zhang, Morgan Gray, Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley
- Semantic Specialization of Legal LLMs via Large-Scale Fine-Tuning on Jurisdictional MCQs (Long paper) 19-31
  Hsuan-Lei Shao
- Semantic Evaluation of Legal Essay Reasoning with Transfer-Learned LLMs: A Crowdsourced Elo Framework (Long paper) 32-46
  Ying-Chu Yu, Hsuan-Lei Shao

### Session 2: Structure & Explainability in Legal AI

- Incorporating Legal Structure in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Case Study on Copyright Fair Use (Long paper) 47-59
  Justin Ho, Alexandra Colby, William Fisher
- Detecting Purpose Language in State Regulations (Short paper) 60-68
  Chandan Aggarwal, Royce Koh, Cindy Zhang, Matthew Carey, Sylvia Kwakye
- Explainable NLLP: Advancements in Explainable AI for Natural Legal Language Processing (Short paper) 69-82
  Lucas Resck, Felipe Moreno-Vera, Tobias Veiga, Gerardo Paucar, Ezequiel Fajreldines, Guilherme Klafke, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco

### Session 3: Neuro-Symbolic & Logical Approaches

- From Legal Texts to Defeasible Deontic Logic via LLMs: A Study in Automated Semantic Analysis (Long paper) 83-100
  Elias Horner, Cristinel Mateis, Guido Governatori, Agata Ciabattoni

### Session 4: Information Extraction & Datasets

- What Are the Facts? Automated Extraction of Court-Established Facts from Criminal-Court Opinions (Short paper) 101-117
  Klára Bendová, Tomáš Knap, Jan Černý, Vojtěch Pour, Jaromir Savelka, Ivana Kvapilíková, Jakub Drápal

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